William Wordsworth, on writing:

 

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

- William Wordsworth.

Born on this day – William Wordsworth:

Writer

April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850

Credits:

A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (1816); An Evening Walk (1793); Descriptive Sketches (1793); Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822); Lyrical Ballads (1798); Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth (1820); Peter Bell (1819); Poems (1807); Poems (1815); Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth (1831); Thanksgiving Ode (1816); The Cornell Wordsworth (1975); The Excursion (1849); The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845); The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (various editions 1824–1854); The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (1979); The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1876); The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (1974); The Recluse (1888); The River Duddon (1820); The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1838); The Waggoner (1819); The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons (1815); Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818); William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces (1965); William Wordsworth: The Poems (1981); Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (1905).